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On and off, but yes. I do this namely because I: enjoy collecting them, prefer reading them physically, and like to appreciate the design elements found in a good magazine layout. …

Doesn't Google Forms roughly do this? It outputs responses to a spreadsheet

I commented this on an HN post about FB 2 years ago in response to a comment much like yours. Pasting it here: I don't understand accusations of whataboutism. They oftentimes seem …

>It's much better not to do dumb things than to do dumb things and then try to fix it. Yes, it's good to fix one's mistakes, but that doesn't mean we should be celebrating those mi…

Adding to this list: * https://catala-lang.org/ -- DSL for translating/annotating legal texts * https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.07966.pdf -- A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code * …

>Do you have some examples? Genuinely curious. To my knowledge, most of the major FAANG apps are single-binary. Worked on iOS app size at a FAANG for a couple of years -- this is u…

After grappling with phone addiction for quite some time I found that reducing my phone time just shifted my procrastination habits to my computer. These procrastination habits are…

Do you plan on open-sourcing it, or do you have any recommendations for similar projects/research? Very excited about the computational law space.

>IMO, there's a multibillion dollar company waiting to be founded to provide authenticity verification services for humans online. The US government does authentication in real lif…

>I am a Linux guy and I hate it when co-workers are too stupid for utf8 encoding. You sound like a jerk. Team-mates not understand something is not an excuse to call them stupid. I…

>Apple’s biggest competition right now is the web. More and more “apps” are just thin, non-native veneers on top of web sites (cf Zoom, Slack, Steam, etc). The issue for Apple is, …

It's almost as if pedagogy is a deep and rich field and you can't as easily absorb information without the guidance of a knowledgeable mentor. Who would have thought?

Can a US citizen apply to work in Amsterdam?

>orthogonal ergonomic?

>Ah yes, the old "No one thinks for themselves except people like me" argument. This is almost everything that PG writes.

There are tons of applications! The thesis behind AR is that your phone (or some other device) can be a passport to accessing a digital world around you. Some ideas, in no particul…

Vine is a video app -- those tend to work pretty poorly without sound

Gen Z Social Network -> Creation does not imply that Creation -> Gen Z Social Network

What are you lexing?

>And no, running a separate type checking tool is not the answer. Especially since no such tool exists that's production grade and in sync with the language. What does "production …

I don't understand accusations of whataboutism. They oftentimes seem hypocritical: accusing someone of whataboutism is as relevant (and therefore, by its own logic, as rhetorically…

>The clusters look strange to me as well - I don’t see any expected names aside from Plato and Aristotle for classics. What names did you expect? A lot of them look part for the co…

I don't necessarily agree with your expectations bullet point. I feel that human beings are inherently focused on results/value. Instead of not caring about the result, I consider …

I think you misunderstood what he was saying. Magic Leap, as of now, has received $2.3B in the comments[1]. This is mentioned in the article's subtitle. [1]: https://www.crunchbase…

The thing is that pretty much all reporting has bias. Interpretation is inextricable from observation. Bias in and of itself is not a bad thing -- it provides a framework for meani…